PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 294-JUNE 28, 1944 Post, p. 866. Interchangeability of amounts. Special assistants to Attorney General. 42 Stat. 1488. 6U.S.C.§661; Snpp. III, § 661 t seq. Post, p. 866. Salary limitation. Permanent regional offices. Senate approval of appointments at $7,500 or more. For the Office of Pardon Attorney, $32,400. For the Board of Immigration Appeals, $140,000. Not to exceed 5 per centum of the foregoing appropriations for personal services shall be available interchangeably, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, for expendi- tures in the various offices and divisions named, but not more than 5 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said offices or divisions and any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall he reported to Congress in the annual Budget, and not to exceed $250,000 of said appropriations shall be available for the employment, on duties properly chargeable to each of said appro- priations, of special assistants to the Attorney General without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture and repairs, floor coverings, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, includ- ing telegraphing and telephones, and teletype, rentals and tolls, postage, labor, newspapers not exceeding $350, stenographic reporting services by contract, repair, maintenance, and operation of five motor- driven passenger cars; purchase of lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof; examination of esti- mates of appropriation in the field; and miscellaneous and emer- gency expenses authorized or approved by the Attorney General or his Administrative Assistant, $235,000. Traveling expenses: For all necessary traveling expenses, Depart- ment of Justice, not otherwise provided for, $187,500. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Depart, ment of Justice, $500,000. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of govern- ment and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; expenses of procuring evidence, supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, travel, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $154,000. Enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws: For the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws, including traveling expenses, and experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, except that the compensation paid to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed the rate of $10,000 per annum, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,390,000: Provided, That none of this appropriation shall be expended for the establishment and maintenance of perma- nent regional offices of the Antitrust Division: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the payment of any person hereafter appointed at a salary of $7,500 or more for the enforcement of antitrust and kindred laws unless such person is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, probation officers, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, rec- ords, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also the offi- [58 STAT. 408
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